Railway cross-tie



(No Model.)

JJMAHONEY an). W. SHOOKLEY,

RAILWAY GROSS TIE. v No. 370534. Patented. Sept. 27, 1887.

M" w W INVENTDRS Alma MZ UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN MAHONEY AND DAVID W. SHOGKLEY, OF WIEMINGTON, DELAWARE.

' i RAILWAY CROSS-TIE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 370,634, dated September 27, 1887 Application filed June 29, 1887. Serial No. 242,832. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN MAHONEY and DAVID W. SHooKLEY, of Wilmington, in the county of New Castle, inthe State of Delaware,

have invented new and useful Improvements in Railway GrossTies, of which the following,

- taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention has special reference to the metallic cross-tie for which we have obtained Letters Patent of the United States, No. 280,200, dated June 26, 1883.

Our present invention consists in an im-.

proved construction and combination of the I 5 devices for securing the track-rails to the tie,

as hereinafter fully described, andspecificall y set forth in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is i a plan view of our improved railway cross-tie 20 with the rails mounted thereon. Fig. 2 is partly a side view and partly a longitudinal sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is an end view; Fig.

4, a transverse section. Fig. 5is an isometric view of the tie with one of the bearing-plates 2 5 mounted thereon. Fig. 6 is a detached isometric view of one of the bearing-plates; and Fig. 7 is a transverse section of the tie, illustrating a modification of the attachment of the bearing-p1ate.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

R R denote the track-rails, and A the metallic cross-tie supporting. said rails. Said cross-tie we construct of iron or steel and with 3 5 upward proj ecting flanges a a rising from a base or bed plate, a, at or near the side edges thereof, similar to the cross-tie shown in our prior patent hereinbefore referred to. Tieretofore we have mounted the rails R R directly a e on the flanges a a, and secured them to the tie by clip-plates fastened to the base of the tie between the flanges a a, andblocks were fitted between the flanges and clamped between the clip-plates to afford additional bearings for the 5 rails. This construction and combination of parts we find complicated and expensive and do not afford thesecure fastening for the rails.

The object of our present'invention is to obviate the aforesaid defects, and to that end we resort to the following improved construction and combination of parts.

Across the top of the two flanges a a,nea r each end thereof, we place horizontally a'bearingplate, I), which we secure in position by providing the top of the flanges with recesses r r, in which the aforesaid plate is seated. We form the plate bwith legsl Z, which rest either against the inner sides of the flanges a a, as represented in Fig. 7 of the drawings,or against the outer sides of said flanges, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5 of the drawings, and terminate with shoulder d d, by which they rest on the base a, of the tie, and with tenons t between said shoulders, which tenons pass through slots 0 c in the base a and are clinched or otherwise fastened to the under side of the tie.

To secure the rail R to the bearing-plate b, we provide said plate with a lip, e, which we preferably strike up from the plate between the flanges a a, said lip being adapted to receive underneath it and bear on one of the flanges to the rail R at the outer side thereof. The flange on the inner side of the rail is embraced byaclip, f, bolted or otherwise clamped onto the bearing-plate I), as shown in Fig. 2 of 7 5 the drawings.

Having described our invention, what we claim is- 1. In combination with the metallic tie formed with upward-projecting flanges a a, provided with recesses r r, thebearing-plates b b, seated in said recesses and secured to the tie, and the rails R R, mounted on said bear ing-plates, as set forth.

2. The combination of the metallic tie formed with upward-projecting flanges a a, and provided with slots 0 c, and the bearingplates 1) b, riding on said flanges-and provided with tenons t 25, passing through the said slots andfastened to the under side of the tie, sub- 0 stantially as set forth.

3. The combination of the metallic tie formed with upward-projecting flanges a a, and provided with slots 0 c, and the bearingplates 1) b, riding on said flanges and formed with the legs Z Z, provided with the tenons t t, and with shoulders 17. d, substantially as described and shown.

4. The combination of the metallic tie formed with upward-projecting flanges a a, and provided with the recesses r r and slots 0 c, and the bearing-plates b I), seated in said recesses and formed with legs Z Z, provided with supporting-shouldei's d d, and with tenons t t, clinched on the under side of the tie, substantially as described and. shown.

5. The combination of the metallic tie formed with npward-projecting flanges a a, and provided with recesses r 1* in said flanges, and with the slots 0 c in the base of the tie,the bearing-plates b b, seated in said recesses and formed with legsl l, prot'ided with the supporting-shoulders d d, and with tenons t t, clinched on the under side of the tie,and clamps on top of the bearing-plates for securing the rails thereto, substantially as described and shown.

6. The combination of the metallic tie formed with the npward-proj ecting flanges a a, and provided with the recesses 7 r in said flanges, and with the slots 0 c in the base of the tie, the bearing-plates b l), seated in said recesscs and formed with legs Z I, provided with supporting-shoulders d d, and with tenons t t, clinched on the under side of the tie, and lips e e, struck up from the hearing-plates between the flanges a a, the rails R R, mounted on the bearing-plates, and each having one of its flanges under the lip e, and the clip f, clamped on the bearing-plate and bearing on the other'flange of the rail, substantially as described and shown.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto signed our names and affixed our seals, in the presence of two attesting witnesses, at XVilmington, in the county of New Castle, in the State of Delaware, this 25th day of June, 1887.

JOHN MAHONEY. P s] DAVID W. SHOOKLEY. L. s.] \Vitn esses JOHN OTTO, (3-130. 0. WARD. 

